Imagine a house with 420 light switches all controlled by a computer... we have that just for our Christmas lights.

We have a lot of wonderful new hardware this year, which means we have a lot more i/o channels than we did last year. And we want them to all dance with the music. So now we are starting to program the lights in preparation for the December 1 launch using some very useful software called Light Show Pro 2.

Today I programmed one minute of show, which took about 5 hours. Aiming for about 8 minutes we have about 35 hours of programming to go.

We are excited to be in possession of the very latest in light show automation, the brand new release of LSP 2.0. We hope this will eliminate some of our bugs from last year while allowing us to handle a significant increase in channel count - We will have over 400 regular DMX channels, which is a big increase from 240 last year, and even more (2000+) brand new pixel based channels which run over ethernet. I guess this means we have to start programming... September is a bit after our July target, but we hope we will have some time to get at least a couple of songs going!